Friday, 17 August 2012

No atmospheric movement, quite a lot of damp stuff and not a
glimmer of solar activity at the Castle this morn, running a touch late-overslept,
and I am orf out not much later to see some old fart mates.

People from blood groups A, B and AB are more at risk of
heart disease than those with the more common blood type O.

Those with the rarest blood group, AB, are the most
vulnerable - they are 23% more likely to suffer from heart disease than those
with blood group O.

The study also found that for individuals with
blood group B the risk of heart disease increased by 11%, and for blood type A,
by 5%.

Apparently blood group AB has been linked to inflammation,
which plays an important role in artery damage and blood group A is associated
with higher levels of the 'bad' type of cholesterol, low density lipoprotein
(LDL), a waxy substance that can clog arteries.

While those with blood group O may benefit from increased
levels of a chemical which helps blood flow and clotting.

The findings are based on two large US analytical studies -
62,073 women from the Nurses' Health Study and 27,428 adults from the Health
Professionals Follow-up Study. They were between the ages of 30 and 75 and
followed for 20 years.

A recent 'Quality of Life' study compiled by Experian Credit
Expert has found that Bromley is the capital's best borough to call home.

The findings
examined more than 40 factors, such as air quality, crime rates and life
expectancy to rank each district in the UK.

The study examined
the four key life-stages - 'pre-children', 'young children', 'older children'
and 'post-children' - looking at a different set of values for each stage, from
job opportunities and house affordability to average OFSTED scores and average
grades in local schools.

Bromley is among the best areas in the country for annual earnings (16th out of
324), quality of businesses and shops (27th and 37th respectively), as well as
ranking strongly across the board for a range of health and educational
factors.

These are the top
10 London boroughs for quality of life, along with the average house price:

1. Bromley (£312,184)

2. Bexley
(£226,089)

3. Sutton
(£264,568)

4. Harrow
(£324,539)

5. Kingston upon
Thames (£348,880)

6. Richmond upon
Thames (£563,629)

7. Croydon
(£253,283)

8. Kensington &
Chelsea (£1,449,883)

9. Barnet
(£424,987)

10. Merton
(£376,805)

Or you could just
live outside the smoke and avoid all the bleedin stress of getting to Bromley.

A Norwegian driver who swerved his car on a rural road to
avoid running into a moose hit a bear instead, authorities said on Thursday.

The driver spotted the moose
on a country road near Hanestad, 225 kilometers north of Oslo, around midnight
on Wednesday, and tried to go around the animal, not realizing that a bear was
also nearby.

"The driver had lost a
bit of speed as he tried to avoid the moose before hitting the bear," said
Svein Erik Bjorke of the local wildlife authority, who was out in the forest searching
for the wounded animal.

"We are currently
tracking the bear and we have found traces of blood indicating internal
injuries," he said.

The driver escaped uninjured
while his car suffered some damage.

Norway's rugged mountains are
sparsely populated and full of wildlife. The country, nearly the size of Germany
but home to just five million people, has around 100,000 moose and 150 brown
bears, authorities said.

To the land where very fast things aren’t and stuff costing
oodles of money have no useful purpose at all comes the camo-bot.

Stephen Morin
from Harvard University has been trying to duplicate the colourful quick-change
ability of an octopus or cuttlefish with a soft-bodied, colour-changing robot.

The camo-bot is
an upgraded version of a soft-bodied machine that strode out of George
Whitesides’ laboratory at Harvard University last year. That white, translucent
machine ambled about on four legs, swapping hard motors and hydraulics for
inflatable pockets of air. Now, Morin has fitted the robot’s back with a sheet
of silicone containing a network of tiny tubes, each less than half a
millimetre wide.

By pumping
coloured liquids through these “microfluidic” channels, he can change the
robot’s colour in about 30 seconds.

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